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W. BLAU.

FUR CUTTING IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7. 1918 Patented July 22, 1919.

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WILLIAMBLAU, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FUR-CUTTING IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters 1atent. Patented J 1113 22, 1919.

Application filed September 7, 1918. Serial No. 253,092.

invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fur-Cutting Implements, of which thefollowing. is a specification.

The present invention relates to :an implement used in serratlng or zigzagging the edges of furpieces. When fur pieces are to be stitched together, the meeting edges of the two pieces are serrated or zig-.

zagged, if the cut runs transversely ofthe fur. This serrating or z-igzagging is performed in order to produce a joint between the two pieces that is invisible on that side of the skin on which the fur fibers are disposed. l

The zigzagging or serrating operation is performed usually by a knife or cutter, care being taken that the skin is snipped without injuring or severing the fur fibers, covering the same. A pattern is usually used, by

means of which a zigzag line isdrawn on the skin, to be followed then by the cutting V The main object of the present invention is to provide an implement which greatly simplifies the snipping operation, in that it clamps the edge of the fur to be serrated or zigzagged, serving-at the same time as a guide along which the knifeis drawn to perform the cutting operation. 7 Another object of the invention is to provide an implement of this type, Which is simple in construction, eflicient in operation and "which can be manufactured on a commercial scale, or other words, one

which isnot so difficult to produce as to be beyond the reasonable cost of such an article.

With these and other objects in view which will more fully appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in. the combination, arrangement, and construction of parts hereinafter described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and proportion of the several parts and details of construction within the scope of the appended claims without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

Two of the many possible embodiments of the invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which "Figure 1 is atop plan view of an implement constructed in accordance with the present invention, part of one of these elements being broken away, to more clearly show the interior construction; Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a top plan'view of a modification of the invention.

.: Referring now first to Figs. 1 and2 of the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates a base plate, provided with a sinuous front edge 11, and with an upwardly extending ledge 12 along its rear longitudinal'edge. To this ledge is hinged at 13 a clamping plate 14, the front edge 15 of which is preferably beveled, its contour corresponding to that ofjthe front edge 11 of the base plate 10, that is to say it is also sinuous. The two wavy front edges of the base plate and clamping plate are in alinement, as clearly appears from Fig. 1 of the drawings. Upon the base plate are mounted upwardly extending pins 16, which are disposed preferably, equidistantly along the sinuous front edge 9f the said base plate, their upper ends being substantially flush with the upper surface 17 of the ledge 12. Two larger pins 18 are attached to the base plate near its ends and as close as possible to the front edge thereof. said. pinsbeing adapted to project through apertures 19 in the clamping plate, whenthe latter is in its clamping position.

To theclamping plate is pivotedat 2Qa ,bar 21,.that extends throughaslot22 in the 'lows:The edge of the fur to be cut is placed, with the fur fibers face down, onto.

the pins 16, care being taken that the edge to be cut does not extend at a greater distance in front of the saidpins than is necessary, order to prevent wasting: of material.

The pins 18 are passed through the fur in order to hold the same in stretched position. The plate 14 is then brought into clamping position by moving the treadle in the direction of the arrow shown in'Fig. 2 of the drawings, whereby the work is held in proper position upon the implement. ,At-. tention is called tothe fact that the edge of the work to be cut is supported by the pins 10 16 only. The fur fibers arethus permitted to extend vertically downward, and due to this fact the knife, in performing the cutting operation, cuts the skin of the fur only, but leaves the fur fibers intact. After the clamping plate has been brought into its operative position, the operatorcuts the fur by drawing a knife along thev sinuous edge of the clamping plate. 'The clamping plate has thus a two-fold function, towitz First, it

serves as the means for holding the fur in place, and second, it constitutes a pattern for the cut to be made. After-the cutting operation, the operator lets go of the treadle,

gwhereb'y the spring 26 shiftsthe clamping plate 14 to its inoperative position, thereby v permitting the furto be removed from the base plate. I V The modification shown in Fig. 3 of the implement are disposed, are composed of a plurality of regular and alternate turns.

What I claim is 1.-In an implement-of the character de- I scribed, the combination with a base plate having aserratecl front edge composed ofa plurality of regular and alternate turns, a clamping plate hinged to said base plate provided with a free edge having a contour corresponding to that of the front edgeof said base plate, the serrations in both plates being continuous, a line of upwardly extending pins attached to said base plate in rear of and in parallel relation to the front edge of saidbaseplate, the free edge of saidprovided with a free edge having a contour corresponding to that of the front edge of said base plate, the serrations in both; plates being continuous, and a line of upwardly extending pins attached tosaid base plate in rear of and in parallel relation to thef'ront edge of said base plate, the free edge of said clamping plate being adapted to rest'on-the fur on said pins and being then in alinement with the front edge of said base plate.

e 8. In an implement of the character-described, the combination with a base plate having a serratedtf-ront edge composed of a plurality of regular and alternateflturns, of an upwardly extending ledge along the-rear edge of said plate, a clamping plate hinged to said ledge provided with a free edge hav- 7 ing a contour corresponding to. that of the front edge of said base plate, a lineof vupwardly extending pins attached to said base plate in rear-of and in parallel relation to the front edgeof said base plate, the points of said pinsbeing disposed in the plane of the upper face of said ledge so that the free edge of said clamping plate'is-adapted to.

rest on the fur on said pins and is then in alinement with said front edge of said-base plate. 7 r I Signed at New York, in the county of New York, and State of-New York, this 2nd day of August, A. D. 1918. J

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